Shakespeare to be honored in Sunday program in Kent

KENT >> Join the Kent School Music Faculty and their guests at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept.29, for a tribute to Shakespeare featuring introductions by Kent School English Department Masters Ryan Foote and Geoff Stewart.

This is the second concert of the 2013-2014 season for St. Andrew’s Music in the Nave Concert Series, which offers a varied schedule of musical programs throughout the year.

The next concert in this series will be at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6, and features Kent School organist emeritus Thomas Holcombe playing at the dedication of the Holcombe Organ. This program will be held at Kent School’s St. Joseph’s Chapel.

Shakespeare, although known primarily for his plays, also wrote numerous sonnets. Mr. Foote, in addition to adding his insights to the introduction with Geoff Stewart, will open the program with a reading of three of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

Margie O’Brien, soprano with Scott Hill on guitar will premiere two settings, Sonnet 56, “Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force” and “Touch but My Lips” from “Venus and Adonis,” by pianist Max Vladimiroff. Soprano Barbara Kovacs will sing three songs by Roger Quilter: “Under the Greenwood Tree,” “Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun” and “It was a Lover and his Lass.” followed by bass-baritone Joe McDonough singing three excerpts from “Let us Bring Garlands” by Gerald Finzi: “Come Away, Come Away,” “Who is Sylvia?”, and “Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun”.

Pianist Peter Zganiacz will play Grieg’s “Watchman’s Song” from “MacBeth,” followed by a duet from Tchiakovsky’s “Romeo and Juliette” with pianists Margarita Nuller and Max Vladimiroff. Cellist Thirzah Bendokas will perform a solo of music from “West Side Story.” Deborah Cardenas, on the flute and Kathleen Kruze on guitar will accompany Soprano Margie. O’Brien, in “Willow Song” from “Othello.” Doug Myers will play Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” from “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” on the trumpet and pianist Robert Linden will close the program with Prokofiev’s “Montague and Capulets” from “Romeo and Juliette.”

Admission to the Sept. 29, 4 p.m. concert is free for students; adults are asked to make a free will donation to help support the Music in the Nave program.

There will be a reception after the performance in the parish house next to the church. St. Andrew’s Church, is on the corner of routes 341 and 7 in Kent. For more information call 860-927-3486.